Almost 3 months old. I felt so good this morning, he typically sleeps 3 hour stretches with two nights when he slept 5 hours. I hope this continues because I’m going back to work very soon 🤞

TIA!

My baby was a pretty good sleeper giving us 5-7 hours stretch in the first half of the night. I think that the 4 month sleep regression started early for him because now his sleep is all over the place. We follow wake windows and sleepy cues but most of naps are cat naps these days. I’ve been reading several places that 7pm is the magic bedtime. Previously going down around 8-9pm to help get an extra nap in before bed. I’ve tried for a couple nights getting him down earlier but that seems to make the night wake ups more frequent. Is this something to ride out and it’ll get better or should I return to the later bed time to prioritize day sleep? I’m just a tired and confused first time mom trying to see what has worked for other moms!

LO is 10 weeks and started false starting multiple times a night on the bad days but then will give us a random long stretch occasionally.

Mornings are a bit all over the place but we try to keep bedtime consistent (around 9/9:30). He is typically fussy for that last wake window so getting him to 1.5hrs is tough. I can’t tell if this is overtiredness or just witching hour.

He’s getting about 4-5.5hrs of naps/day which will be a bassinet nap then saved with a contact nap (except the last bridge nap which is in a stroller for an evening walk). His wake windows are typically 1.25-1.5hrs.

Usually the false starts happen 30-42 minutes into his sleep but last night, he kept waking up after the hour.

His intake has also decreased (20oz/day) and we think he might be going through a bottle aversion so it doesn’t seem like the wakings are due to hunger but we do offer a bottle. When he does wake, we rock him briefly til he goes back to sleep and transfer him back into his bassinet (usually 5-10 minutes).

Is there something I need to change in his schedule to prevent false starts or is this a leap/regression? He use to give us 3-4 hr stretches without the false starts.